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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - The challenges and opportunities of sustainab
 le materials
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto\, Tufts University\, USA\nNatural mate
 rials offer new avenues for innovation across fields\, bringing together\,
  like never before\, natural sciences and high technology. Significant opp
 ortunity exists in reinventing naturally-derived materials\, such as struc
 tural proteins\, and applying advanced material processing\, prototyping\,
  and manufacturing techniques to these ubiquitously present substances.  
 This approach help us imagine and realize sustainable\, carbon-neutral str
 ategies that operate seamlessly at the interface between the biological an
 d the technological worlds. Some of these opportunities include biomater
 ials-based applications in edible and implantable electronics\, food prese
 rvation\, functional packaging\, energy harvesting\, wearable sensors\, co
 mpostable technology\, distributed environmental sensing\, medical devices
  and therapeutics\, biospecimen stabilization\, advanced medical diagnosti
 cs\, and will be outlined in this talk.\nBio: Fiorenzo G. Omenetto is the 
 Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering\, and a Professor of Biomedical En
 gineering at Tufts University. He also holds appointments in the Departmen
 t of Physics and the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research in
 terests are in the convergence of technology\, biologically inspired mater
 ials and the natural sciences with an emphasis on new transformative appro
 aches for sustainable materials for high-technology applications. Prof. Om
 enetto was formerly a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National 
 Laboratories\, a Guggenheim Fellow.  He is a 2017 Tällberg Foundation Gl
 obal Leader\,  a Fellow of the Optical Society of America\, the National 
 Academy of Inventors\, and of the American Physical Society. His research 
 has been featured extensively in the press with coverage in the most impor
 tant media outlets worldwide. 
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/95940364570
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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